ROCHESTER — Throughout the local area, high winds have caused branches and trees to fall on live wires, causing power outages in the Strafford County.

In Rochester, many customers lost power after a tree took out power lines on French Hussey Road this afternoon.

"Most of Gonic is out of power for that," said Police Lt. Jason Thomas.

He said, according to PSNH, Gonic power was expected to be restored by about 6 p.m. Sunday.Even the Rochester police station momentarily lost power this afternoon.

"The Police Department just went completely dark," said Thomas during a phone interview at 2:46 p.m., after a flicker in the lights.

Sunday morning, two Rochester roads were closed after trees fell on power lines on Rochester Neck and Chestnut Hill roads. Those roads were reopened to traffic by Sunday afternoon.

At UNH, a campus-wide power outage was reported through a UNH police alert this afternoon.

At 3:15 p.m., PSNH was reporting 1,740 outages in Rochester, 548 outages in Barringon; 570 in Strafford; 27 in Durham, 82 in Northwood, three and Dover.

In Dover, the high winds caused a "good-sized tree" to fall on three parked vehicles at White Cliffs apartment complex off Route 155, according to a Dover dispatcher. No one was injured in the incident, but the vehicles sustained damage, he said.

While no road closures were reported in Dover due to high winds, police reported sporadic power outages throughout the city.